Gruben, William C.(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998-12)

The rapid employment growth of the Mexican in-bond plants, or maquiladoras, lists prominently among the most conspicuous industrial phenomena occurring the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement. In the four years ...

Weintraub, Sidney(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004-06)

In the early 1990s, the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement, linking Canada, Mexico, and the United States, prompted intense debate. Today, ten years after the agreement took effect, it remains a flash point, much ...

Sinha, Tapen; Condon, Bradly J.(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002-02)

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, brought the issue of U.S. border security to the forefront. In the weeks following the attacks, heightened U.S. security measures ...